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"'How came the village to be deserted?' asked the general.
'It was troubled by revenants, sir; several were tracked to their graves and extinguished in the usual ways: by decapitation, by the stake, and by burning. But not until many of the villagers were killed.'"

"'I have been a woodsman here,' he answered in his patois, 'all my days. So was my father before me, and so on, as many generations as I can count. I could show you the very house in the village in which my ancestors lived."

"It was a bad family, and here it's bloodstained annals were written. It is hard that they should, after death, continue to plague the human race with their atrocious lusts."